Junio C Hamano, Sun, Jul 06, 2008 02:56:17 +0200: > Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > The server I run various git snapshots on recently got upgraded to git 1.5.6, > > ... > > I could run the clone with 2>/dev/null, but I'd really like to get > > mail when something breaks instead of it being totally silent. > > > > I'm assuming this was an unintentional side-effect of some other recent change? > > Yeah, I would assume so, too ;-) > > Daniel, is this enough? From re-reading the scripted version of > git-clone, it appears that we *might* need to squelch no-progress if the > stdout is not tty; I do not offhand if you got that right when you > rewrote this in C. While at it, could we please have the first "Initialize" message removed? Initialize git/.git Initialized empty Git repository in /home/davej/git-trees/git/.git/ The default output looks redundant (that of init_db too, but the full path can be useful sometimes). Something like this, perhaps: diff --git a/builtin-clone.c b/builtin-clone.c index 643c7d4..4a0f1ab 100644 --- a/builtin-clone.c +++ b/builtin-clone.c @@ -421,7 +421,6 @@ int cmd_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) die("could not create leading directories of '%s'", git_dir); set_git_dir(make_absolute_path(git_dir)); - fprintf(stderr, "Initialize %s\n", git_dir); init_db(option_template, option_quiet ? INIT_DB_QUIET : 0); /* -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html